The Creamery

The Creamery

(Photo: Audrey Hall)

Cowgirl
January 2017

A stone collector for John Mills of Select Stone, the rock supplier for JLF Architects, was out in eastern Montana scavenging among the scree—piles of stone on the slope or base of a mountain that have fallen in a rock slide—when he spotted an old building. The roof was caved in, but the structure’s weathered stone walls were beautifully intact—and gracefully arranged. He alerted Mills, who brought JLF President Paul Bertelli to the site. Bertelli envisioned a world of possibility for the old ruin…